Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report of the vast scheme of national defense and of its astronomical cost of about $10 billion a year [TIME, Feb. 25]. And you raise the question: is it American? May I, one of the few German anti-militarists, give you an answer? Surely it's not American. It is pure Prussian militarism. . . . Generals and admirals are not in the habit of retiring willingly from their gilded honors into grey civilian life. The American people were able to create within two years the finest and most powerful army, navy and air force ever seen in history, besides stuffing their...
...clock everything was ready to roll. Fay Everett got into the saddle of the 17-year-old tractor that pulls the bigger combine. Frank Anderson cranked the combine's engine and the morning's vast silence was filled with chugging and the swish of churning slats. Frank stood atop the combine, guiding the pitch and height of its 16-foot reel as it chewed at the stalks. Now there were other sounds: the roar of Jack Anderson's tractor as he swung the smaller combine in behind his father's, and the low, steady purr...
...Molotov had said: "Tozhe ne vozrazhayu-I, too, do not object." The other delegates thought that sentence ended ten months of wrangling over convocation of the Peace Conference. But the worst was ahead. Next day, Molotov, as one American delegate put it, "seemed to be oozing vast gobs of grey sweat." He returned with tight-lipped truculence to the Soviet position of blocking the peace. First, he insisted on excluding China from the inviting powers. Byrnes called this "a gratuitous insult" to China, but finally agreed to accept a draft of the invitation form previously proposed by the Russians themselves...
...give opposition," their "autonomous" republics were expunged by Moscow. Charged with treason, sabotage and collaboration, an estimated 400,000 men, women & children were driven from the land on which their ancestors had lived for untold generations, and ordered to trek eastward. Where? Nobody knew-probably to the vast Kazak steppes beyond the Caspian...
...record of its vast labor, in 2,500,000 volumes (almost enough to fill the New York Public Library), will be turned over to the Government by Director Vannevar Bush...